Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and public speaker. In her newest book, she chronicles her year-long journey investigating the groundbreaking neuroscience on how mind-body therapies such as meditation, yoga and acupuncture awaken the healing potential of our brains, change our biology, and revitalize our cells and our health.

Along the way, Nakazawa unveils a little known branch of research showing the profound link between “adverse childhood experiences” and chronic illness in adulthood; a discovery that helps to turn her own life around. Critics call Nakazawa’s “story-telling art” “masterful” and The Last Best Cure “a genuine page-turning science/non-fiction thriller;” a book that will not only “change lives; it may even save some.” Cost: Free